The Christmas Tree & Cone Region

[atalas]

Hi Guys

This image is a reprocess of some old data from a couple of years back shot with the M25c OSC and an FSQ106N.

The exposure time was 6 hours If my memory serves me and all pre processing done in AA5 and post processing in CS4.

Hope you enjoy.

http://tiny.cc/ffl2j

[iceman]

Beautiful result Louie!

[CoolhandJo]

Wonderful colours, detail and depth!

[trent_julie]

That's stunning

[RickS]

A lovely mix of everything in that image, Louie!

[gregbradley]

A beauty Louie. Lots of interesting bits and pieces in that one.

Greg.

[Craig_L]

Very nice Louis. Be nice to see one with your FLI ML8300.

[Paul Haese]

Nice Louie, loads of things to look at in that view.

[marc4darkskies]

Beautiful Louie - love refl neb! Nicely done!

[Lester]

Wonderful view Louie, thanks. All the best.

[Ross G]

Hi Louie,

Wow..!

What an amazing photo.

I love the contrast of the blue against the reds..great composition.


Thanks.

Ross.

[atalas]

Mike,Paul,Trent,Rick,Greg,Craig,Pau l,Marcus,Lester and Ross,thanks very much guys!very pleased you like It.

[TrevorW]

Yep have to agree nicely done

[atalas]

Thanks Trev.

[strongmanmike]

That looks pretty nice Louie, nice recall of old data :thumbsup: One shots can do alright in the right hands.

Totally just a suggestion - to my (narrow-band affected :lol:) eye it has a slight yellow green cast which is washing out the blues and magenta's and making the reds slightly orange, it may look completely different on your screen of course aaaand you may just tell me to go suck eggs... but have a go see what you think first :P.

ED: I just read your colour ideas detailed to Paul...I'll go suck eggs.....

Mike

[atalas]

Mike,thanks dude! Ah,your very correct in that It certainly does have the greeny/yellow and I did notice that mate and being the lazy sod that I am decided to leave It alone :lol: I do appreciate your critique!

Now,I'll be serious for a moment :face:

This tends to happen when pulling back on the blue too much and not balancing color well enough again.

[RickC]

Hi Louie,
very nice image, I like it a lot!
Richard

[atalas]

Thanks Richard,glad you like It mate.

[renormalised]

Great repro, Louis:):)

Nothing wrong with OSC's :):)

[atalas]

Thanks Carl.

[richardo]

Nice job reconstituting old data here Louie!
I love this area, and the one little object that usually has me looking hard is the Fox Fur neb. Love the way it encroaches into the reflection neb.
Lots of dust and stuff....
Like your colour as well;)

All the best
Rich

[RobF]

A truely inspiring image - thanks for sharing. I love the contrasting colours (red and blues) and star colours. Some wonderful but not exagerated dust clouds too. Nice one. :)

[atalas]

Hey Rich,thanks very much mate! If I get a chance this season I'll look at It with the FLI and try and get the most out of this region.



Hi Rob

Thanks you very much, am so glad you like It! with so much going on, the region can be difficult to process and things can go astray very quickly.

Getting the dust in the region to lift I think I found the most difficult in this image, but am satisfied with the result for exposure time from a OSC.

[Leonardo70]

Hi Louie, very nice processing ... great image.

All the best,
Leo

[atalas]

Hey thanks Leo!

[multiweb]

Very cool field. Nice colors and details. A faint one for sure. The reflection neb came out really good. :thumbsup:

[atalas]

Tis faint for a OSC Marc....Merci!

[Stevec35]

Very nice Louie. I think you've more than done it justice.

Cheers

Steve

[Octane]

I remember your original post of this, and, you've done a wonderful job on the reprocessing.

Love your work, Louie.

H

[atalas]

Steve,thank you very much!

H,thank you very much mate...I'm a fan of your work too! wish you would hurry up and hit us with something,It's been a long time.

[Octane]

I've got 13-14 hours on an object that I just don't have the time to process.

I'll get around to it as soon as I can.

I also had 3 large scale mosaics that I have prepared plans for as long as 6 months ago, but, the weather has been absolute rubbish to realise them. :(

I feel like selling my gear.

H

[atalas]

Ah great,look forward to seeing the 13 hr job! mosaic's,I'll be looking forward to as well H...If the weather ever behaves.

Don't sell up mate,hang in there... you know It's worth It!

[mill]

What can i say after all these comments ? It is a beauty of a image with lots to see.

[atalas]

Thanks Martin,glad you like It.